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Bream (Brim) Killer Hook: TMC 200R ( size 8-12) Thread: Black 6/0 Weight: Wire .015 Body: Chenille (small or medium color of choice) Wing: Squirrel Tail Legs: Rubber (color of choice)

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Red Fox Squirrel Nymph (RFSN) Hook: TMC 5262 #10 Thread: Uni thread 8/0 orange Tail: Red Fox Squirrel back Rib: Gold Tinsel oval Abdomen: Wapsi Whitlock SLF #02 Thorax: Wapsi Whitlock SLF #01 Hackle Hungarian Partridge, Natural

SS Bug Hook: Caddis Curved #10 Thread: 6/0 black Body: chenille Legs: chartreuse and black

Michael Verduin’s Cap Spider Hook: 1/124th jig Thread: 6/0 black Body: ultra chenille black Legs: Grizzly Flutter Legs

Foam Spider Hook: standard dry fly hook Thread: 6/0 thread yellow and red Body: 2mm yellow foam (River Road Creations Spider cutter #8) Body: yellow chenille Legs: Centipede yellow and black

Focus stacking can be your friend BUT you need to be able to manually focus your camera. A point and shoot digital won't work. Good luck with your project.

"Nothin Special" Bluegill Fly Hook - J2-#115 dry fly hook #10 Thread - 6/0 black Bead - brass to match hook size Tail - Olive Krystal Flash Body - Ultra Chenille Legs - centipede rubber legs Collar - Ice Dub

Scott Norby's Red Rubber Monkey Butt & variations Hook: #8 Mustad 3366 Thread: 6/0 Black Bead: Brass appropriate to hook size Tail: Red Rubber size Small Butt: Red Chenille size Small Rib: Gold Wire size Small Collar: Black Hackle

Hum Bug Hook: Mustad 3906b, #10 Thread: 6/0, Black Body: Rayon Chenille, Black & Yellow, Medium Legs: Round Rubber Legs, White, Medium

Another vote for the Peak.

If this is what you are looking for it's way less. Under $16 with free shipping. Tight Lines ! Rick A Concise History of Fly Fishing

I wear glasses normally but use clip on cheaters +3 or +4 magnification when tying flies. I use led clip on my fly tying desk lights and find good lighting and some magnification works for me. YMMV

Onenote has really helped me. The more I use it the better I like it. niveker, you can copy & paste links to Youtube videos as well. Helps me when I see a video of a fly that I would like to tie. Helps me keep everything organized , which for me is a major accomplishment. Just ask my wife ! Another nice feature is you cane share your notes with someone else. I've shared my notes with a son and grandson so that should they eventually decide to tie they will have access to my fly notes.

"Horses for courses" I use OneNote to keep track of patterns I would like to tie and try in the future. I create the page so it can provide me with maybe a quick visual reference of the fly, maybe a suggested materials list and maybe even a video link or a SBS. I don't have quite the experience of some of you or the memory I had when I was younger and it helps keep track of possible future ties and past ties. I don't use it for inventory control. It sure helps me, YMMV

This is a screen capture from my OneNote Notebook of Tied Flies

I am a Windows 10 user with an iphone and ipad. There is a free Windows 10 app that I use on my desktop that syncs to my other devices. The app is called OneNote. I use it for more than fly fishing and flies but it allows me to store info on flies I would like to tie and flies I have tied. How you organize that material is up to you, think of it as a digital 3 ring binder. I use it to easily copy and paste photos of flies and materials lists of flies I have tied and would like to tie, even to store links to Youtube fly tying videos. I synchs across devices so I can easily call up the exact same information on all my devices. The information is easily shared as well as you can allow access to whomever you choose. The app is free and is located here:OneNote from the app site: Organize your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify planning important moments in your life with your digital notepad. Microsoft OneNote lets you take notes on your phone and sync them across all your devices. With OneNote, you can plan a big event, seize a moment of inspiration to create something new, and track your list of errands that are too important to forget. Take notes, write memos and make a digital sketchbook right on your phone. Capture pictures and add images to your notes. Sync notes across your devices to access them anytime, anywhere. Save ideas and check your list at home, in the office, or on the go across your devices. Search your notes quickly and effortlessly. Take notes, share ideas, organize and collaborate when you download Microsoft OneNote today. Capture Content And Get Organized • Write notes, draw and clip things from the web to get your thoughts down into your notebook. • Use OneNote’s flexible canvas to place content anywhere you want. • Scan documents and business cards straight into OneNote. • Save pictures and images to your notes. Take Notes And Achieve More • OneNote is a digital notebook that brings 3-ring binders to the digital era. • Organize notes with sections and pages to separate thoughts by theme at school, home or work. • Organize your notes using to-do lists, follow up items, marks for what’s important and custom labels. • Use OneNote as a notebook, journal or a notepad. Save Ideas At The Speed of Light • OneNote syncs your notes across all devices and lets multiple people work on the content together, at the same time. • Use the notepad to list your thoughts down whenever something crosses your mind. • Notepad badge hovers on screen and lets you quickly write your thoughts down any time. • Sticky notes are helpful for quick memos. Collaborate and Share Notes • Take meeting notes, brainstorm projects, draw attention to important points and organize key resources. • Collaborate in real time to stay in sync and on the same page. • Take notes and save ideas across your favorite devices, no matter what device your team likes to use. • Take notes during classes or meetings, mixing in text, voice, ink and web clippings. • Search your notes with a fast and powerful search function Better Together With Microsoft Office • OneNote is part of the Office family and works great with your favorite apps, such as Excel or Word, to help you do more. Write notes, save ideas and keep up with your to-do list with Microsoft OneNote. You can find answers to frequently asked questions about OneNote for Android at http://aka.ms/OnenoteAndroidFAQ

..........that is a great story Chief @JSzymczyk

Ah a great trip none the less and you'll get'em next time.

I would bet it was a turtle that was shell hooked. I fish a Bluegill/Bass pond close to home and the turtles are like submarines with their scopes up at times. Checking around for stuff. I have hooked a turtle, not to have it budge, especially if it is a large one and then all of a sudden my line will move. Accidentally hooked a large soft shell here recently and had to call my son to help me get it unhooked and back in the water, he is our reptile/amphibian expert in residence. They are as endangered species here in Illinois. My money is on a TURTLE.

Great Story Happy Ending & Fish Doesn't hardly get better than that!

Philly, I/we call this a Red Ear around here in central Illinois. Nice fish what ever it is called.

So that brings me full circle to my tie and a materials list. Just in case someone else decides to tie a Byrd's Gillbuster, they will have my best guess. Byrd's Gillbuster Materials List: Hook: #10 3761 Thread: Danvile 6/0 Eyes: Lead nickle plated micro 7/64ths Tail: Black Rabbit micro-zonker strip Body: Black Danville Acetate Floss Thanks to everyone that participated in this thread. this is a great sharing, caring, learning environment. I even got a few new patterns to try in the process. Tight Lines. Rick

Well where do I start? I love fly fishing and even though I am nearly 70 and no rookie to fishing, fly fishing is another story. I've been hanging out on the Forum and have enjoyed my time here but don't really feel like I have contributed much to the knowledge base. Let me preface the backstory by saying, I love Bluegill fishing. If i see a carp fly mentioned and the person says he had a hard time keeping bluegills off of it, I need to know more. So that brings me to the rest of the story. I read a post about a fly called Byrd's Gillbuster. Well, with a name like that I am intrigued. A little more searching and someone mentions it in a post about "one flys". Whoa, now you have my full attention. More searching and more mentions but no definitive pictures or materials are listed. I post a question to the Forum and get some very helpful quick replies. Philly, Capt Bob LeMay, Bazzer69, richmce and others jump in to lend a hand. Philly posts a photo of what he has found. I eventually find that photo: but also come to realize that the tier says it's a modified byrds gillbuster recipe and used white zonker, pearl/white sparkle chenille for a body and white and black lead dumbell eyes. Hmmmm, so now I know what a modified gillbuster looks like but what does the original look like? More web searching by me finds an earlier photo. Ah now maybe I am getting closer. A photo with the name of the person that tied it but still no material list. I find a link to that person that brings me to an email that I am NOT even sure is still active. On a lark I send an email to the person that tied it. A day goes by and I get a response. His internet search pulls up the photo that Philly found and his respnse was, "The pics I find are not the fly I remember. The gill buster I remember was super simple. Black Rabbit fur tail, black uni stretch body, and dumbbell eyes. I sent him the above photo and he confirms that it is likely his tie and the fly. Well now we are on to something. A little more searching and I am introduced to what remains of Bill Byrd's now inactive website. From what I can tell, Bill Byrd like to fish with 1wt, 2 wt and 3wt max fly rods. From Bill Byrd's website: "Use your favorite subsurface flies. Use flies with lead eyes 1/100th, 1/50th, 1/36th, and even 1/24th ounce to get them down. Even light chain bead eyes work well on the slowly suspending sub-surface flies. Flies in sizes-8 to -12 work just fine on bass to thirteen pounds. Use slender profile subsurface flies in the size-10 and -12 range and you'll catch larger members of other sunfish species as well. Select or tie flies that emulate the available food."

I use 8/6/4 Fluoro. when I build mine. Can handle what I catch with the 3wt and 5wt. YMMV Tight lines, Rick